Interesting Facts About Anxiety and How to Finally Beat It

Let's Talk About Anxiety (and why most of it isn't even real)

Anxiety is a bit of a trickster. It doesn’t show up when something happens.
It shows up when your brain thinks something might happen.

It’s future-focused. Always forecasting doom.
Never grounded in the now.

And here’s a fun fact I remind myself of often:

👉🏼 85% of what we worry about? Never happens.
👉🏼 And of the 15% that does? 79% of people say they handled it better than they thought - or learned something useful from it.

That’s 97% of anxiety being pure noise.

But if it’s so irrational… why is it so convincing?

Well, here’s the truth:

Our brains are still living in prehistoric times. 
They're constantly scanning for danger - like we’re about to be ambushed by a lion.

Except… now the “lion” is an email notification.
A phone call. A client not replying.
And the brain? It doesn’t know the difference. It just wants to keep you alive.

Now let's look into childhood conditioning:

“Don’t run, you’ll fall and break your leg.”
“Don’t go there - something bad might happen.”

Sound familiar?

Our caregivers, just like our brain, wanted to protect us.
But now, as adults, we carry that wiring into every big decision, relationship, and challenge.

And what does it do?

It steals the moment we’re in.
Kills our joy. And leaves us constantly rehearsing disaster that, statistically, will never happen.

My Personal Wake-Up Call

For a long time, anxiety ruled my life - quietly, invisibly.

When I used to work in sales, the pressure at the end of each month was next level. Targets. Deadlines. Expectations. Always more, more, more.

And I had one coping mechanism:

• Go out. 
• Escape. 
• Drink until I stopped feeling.

That’s what “decompressing” looked like.

And honestly? I thought it was normal.

But here’s what I’ve learned since:

👉🏼 You can’t out-party your nervous system.
👉🏼 You can’t drink away the pressure.
👉🏼 And you definitely can’t escape your way into peace.

Fast-forward to now - I run my own biz and guess what? 

Sales didn't stop. 

And I still feel anxious once in a while.

BUT

Instead of trying to outrun anxiety, I learned how to meet it - and regulate it - from the inside out.

And for me, it’s not about never feeling anxious.

It’s about not letting it drive the damn car.

How I Started Rewiring My Brain (and You Can Too)

Here’s a super simple practice I use often - especially when the spiral starts.

Step 1: Write down what you’re anxious about
Not in your head. On paper. Get it out.

Step 2: Then write down what you want to happen
What’s the ideal outcome here?
How do you want this to go?

Step 3: Close your eyes and live that version

Really go there. Feel it. Picture it. Hear it. Smell it.
Let your nervous system get a taste of that reality.

Pro Tip: Save your notes. If anxiety resurfaces, repeat Step 3. 

This way you get to train your mind to hold space for possibility not just worst-case scenarios.

You get to be the calm within the chaos.

And you get to rewrite the story - from “what if it all goes wrong” to “what if it actually goes right?”

That’s not delusion.

That’s strategy.